Another major talking point is on security guarantees. Trump says security guarantees for Ukraine would be "provided" by European countries with "coordination" by the US. British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has told the BBC that the UK negotiators will shortly be arriving in Washington for further planning on this.

Special U.S. envoy Steve Witkoff says Russian leader Vladimir Putin agreed to allow the U.S. and Europe to offer Ukraine a security guarantee resembling NATO's collective defense mandate.

U.S. President Donald Trump says he has called Russian President Vladimir Putin and begun to arrange a meeting between Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, a critical step toward bringing a possible end to Russia's war on Ukraine.

For Europe’s leaders, the White House meeting was about optics as much as substance: A chance to undo any ground Russia's Vladimir Putin may have gained with Trump in Alaska.

Donald Trump has said the Ukrainian president can end Russia's war "if he wants to", but there would be "no going into Nato by Ukraine" as part of a peace deal. Hours before he was due to host Volodymyr Zelensky at the White House,

Former Trump National Security Adviser Robert O'Brien joins ‘America Reports’ to break down President Donald Trump’s negotiations with Russian President Vladimir Putin over ending the Ukraine war.